Those songs are unbearable. I found better Elvis Presley one. Haven't thought much about birds being especially free in trees, though. I tend to think of birds being most free when they're soaring. But it's something interesting to think about.

That's one heck of a list of songs. All three of those bands made some excellent songs (and Queen some great ones) but those are three of their worst. I voted for The Ohio Players based solely on the Honey album cover. My only possible explanations for the big Queen vote are: 1. A lot of people are acknowledging that Queen is the better of the three bands. 2. A lot of people got a laugh out of the video even though the song was terrible.3. A lot of people have the same reaction to Freddy as I have to the Honey album cover. NTTAWWT.

Althouse - Have you ever done a post on the Monkees. I notice you don't have a tag. I'd like to hear both you and Crack do a riff on them. You were definitely the target market for the TV show. Crack would come at them from the position of someone from the music industry who has a "special take" on the 60's.

Personally, I wish that during their first press conference one of them had said, "Wait! What are you morons talking about? We were hired as actors who can sing. We work with the best studio musicians in LA. It's an honor to work with them. They can play better than anyone in the world. We tell jokes. Make a TV show. Sing songs. It's the best job I've ever had. Probably the best job I'll ever have in my life." Probably wouldn't have made a difference. But you never know.

I went with the Queen song mostly because it was the only one that wasn't tiresome period wallpaper. The Monkees could be a decent pop assemblage, mostly when the studio musicians were given a good Neil Diamond piece to play. The other band... boy, that was boring.